Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volumes I through V of the Plan are nearly done. They survey the success of previous planning efforts, planning philosophies, raw census data, traffic flow, and the visual environment of the Square...
...some streets and redirection of others. Surprisingly, the planners say, traffic can often be handled better on a small number of streets because the number of intersections and junctions declines. Planning officials also believe that introducing one-way streets where two-way streets now stand would help smooth traffic flow...
...franchisees from among his business friends all over the country. Wilson and Johnson sold the first franchise in Clarksdale, Miss., for $500 and a flat fee of 5? per night for each occupied room. In return, the franchisee got Holiday Inns' plans and national advertising. Applications began to flow in, many from investment groups made up of doctors and dentists. Meanwhile, the start of the $76 billion federal interstate highway-building program in 1956 gave a great lift to Holiday Inns and its rising competitors...
...handsome 15% or more on its investment. For such a motel, Holiday Inns charges an initial fee of $15,000, plus royalties and fees of 6% on the annual gross. In return, the franchisee gets the marketing advantage of a household name, national advertising and a steady flow of customers provided by the chain-wide referral system. The massive Holidex reservations system at Memphis headquarters is the largest on-line civilian computer system in the world. Lines run from every Holiday Inn in the U.S. to two IBM 360 computers in Memphis, which keep tab on every room...
...prose have resulted. Since 1957, for instance, more than 1,200 books on suicide have appeared. Most of them are technical, widely unread, prepared by (and for) sociologists, psychologists and suicidologists working in the 300 suicide-prevention centers now operating round the country. This spring, however, along with a flow of popular articles and television shows on self-destruction, a number of books have been published, all more or less aimed at the general public. Suicide, in fact, seems about to join teen-age druggery and air pollution as one of the glum preoccupations of the decade...